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Foundation Health Partners · 2 days ago

Quality Improvement Specialist

Fairbanks, AK

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$36.44/hr - $58.30/hr

5+ years exp

Foundation Health Partners is seeking a detail-oriented and motivated Quality Improvement Specialist to support their mission of delivering consistent, high-quality care and service to the community. The role involves evaluating workflows, analyzing performance data, and collaborating with teams to implement improvements across the organization.

Health CarePrimary and Urgent Care

Responsibilities

Supports staff, departments, and leaders in continuous improvement activities and projects to include rapid improvement and improving flow events, value stream mapping, standard work, process improvement projects, and support to Quality Team

Educates and facilitates organization quality management system and programs, improvement activities, and tools

Provides ongoing assessment of performance, analyzes clinical outcome data, and identifies performance improvement opportunities or trends. Conducts high level assessments, gathers information and collaborates with the appropriate process owner(s) to identify opportunities for improvement

Analyzes data for administrative and clinical decision making

Facilitates prioritization of improvement activities with system and facility leadership

Initiates and oversees performance improvement projects in collaboration with project lead

Serves as a resource and/or facilitates improvement teams to plan, implement, and coordinate entity activities to maximize clinical and operational outcomes

Participates on improvement teams, guiding them on the system defined improvement process

Serves as a resource for assessment of clinical performance and performance improvement methodologies throughout the facility and system

Qualification

Process ImprovementData AnalysisQuality ManagementStatistical AnalysisHealthcare ExperienceRegistered Nurse LicenseCPHQ CertificationInterpersonal SkillsWritten CommunicationProblem SolvingTeam CollaborationProject Management

Required

Bachelor's degree in healthcare, science, business, engineering or related field OR a clinical background with current license/certification or equivalent experience

Proficiency level typically attained with five (5) years acute care, healthcare, process improvement, safety or quality management experience

Ability to perform complex statistical analysis and highly developed problem solving skills

Ability to manage programs and projects

Demonstrated excellence in interpersonal and written communication skills

Preferred

Registered Nurse (RN) license preferred

Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) certification is preferred

Experience with process improvement, regulatory/accreditation programs, data management, and analysis including graphic development and presentations is highly desirable

Additional related education and/or experience preferred